Hot-air range or stove.



PATENTED FEB. 14, 1905.

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- APPLICATION FILED JULY 12, 1904.

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INVENTOR Samuel Taran A T TOR/VHS e3 WITNESSES No. 782,631. .PATENTEDFEB. 14, 1905.

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HOT AIR RANGE OR STOVE.

APYLIOATION FILED JULY 12, 1904.

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WITNESSES I I lIll/ENTUB 66 Wig Sana 'el Taralzffy @Q/CM BY Arron/Ids IUNITED STATES Patented February 14, 1905.

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HOT-AIR RANGE 0R STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,631, dated February14, 1905.

Application filed July 12, 1904. Serial N0= 216,196.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL TURANSKY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, inthe county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hot-Air Ranges orStoves,of which the following is a specification, such as will enablethose skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to cooking ranges or stoves; and the objectthereof is to provide an improved device of this class whereby anordinary' cooking range or stove may be made to serve as ahot-air'heater, the construction and arrangement being such that theroom or apartment in which the range or stove is located may be suppliedat all times with pure hot air, which may also be used for heating otherrooms or apartments, if desired.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part,-in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters ineach of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a front side View of acookingrange made according to my invention; Fig. 2, a plan view thereofwith the top or cover removed; Fig. 3, a longitudinal vertical sectionof the range; Fig. 4, a horizontal section on the line 4 L of Fig. 3;Fig. 5, a horizontal section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3; Fig. 6, asectional back view, the back plate only being removed; Fig. 7, anend-view of the left-hand end of the range; Fig. 8, a sectional end viewof the left-hand end of the range, the end plate only being removed; andFig. 9, a view similar to Fig. 8 of the right-hand end of the range.

1n the practice of my invention I provide a range a which is oblong andrectangular in form and provided with an oven a a fire-box a at theleft-hand end of the oven and beneath which is an ash-pit a, and thefire-box a is provided with a door a and the ash-pit a with a door a.The end of the range in which the fire-box a -is located is providedwith a vertically-arranged and transverse airchamber 1), the inner wallZ2 of which is provided with a plurality of baflie-plates Z2 which arearranged vertically and extend across said chamber and are designed toobstruct the passage of air therethrough. range opposite that in whichthe fire-box is located, or the right-hand end of the range, is providedwith a vertically-arranged and transverse airchamber c, the inner wall 0of which is provided with a plurality of vertically-arrangedbaflie-plates 0 also designed to obstruct the passage of air throughsaid chain ber. The range .is also provided at the back thereof with avertically-arranged air-chamber d, the inner wall d of which is providedwith a plurality of vertically-arranged baffleplates cl also designed tointerrupt or retard the passage of air through the chamber (Z, and thechambers b and c are in full communication with the chamber d, at theopposite ends thereof, this communication extending from.

the top to the bottom of the range, as clearly,

shown in Fig. 4, and the tops of the chambers b, c, and d are closed bywalls 5, 0*, and d, which extend downwardly and inwardly to the plane ofthe top of the fire-box and oven. The range is also provided with a base(0 forming an air-chamber e, which is placed in communication with theair-chamber Z) at the left hand end of the range, as shown at e in Fig.3, and at the left-hand end of the base a is a removable air-register efor admitting air to the chamber 0, and at the right-hand end of saidchamber is an opening 6*, provided with a removable cap or cover 6 andwhich is intended to serve as a connection for an airsupply pipe bymeans of which air may be supplied to the chamber 6, or, if desired,from outside ofthe room in which the range is placed, and theair-chamber e, at the left-hand end thereof, is also provided with atransverse partition-plate e, which extends inwardly a predetermineddistance and which is located over the air-register device 6 Beneath theoven a or between the bottom thereof and the bottom wall or floor g ofthe range, which also serves as the top wall of the air-chamber e, is anair-chamber g and at the left-hand end of the oven or between the hotairchamber 0 and the oven is a vertically-arranged chamber which is in fullcommunicationwith the chamber g and the chambers The end of the g and gconstitute a part of the flue-passages through which the hot gases ofcombustion from the fire-box a pass, and the chamber g is dividedcentrally by a vertically-arranged partition-plate g*, which alsoextends forwardly partially through the chamber g beneath the oven (0Over the oven a or between the top wall thereof and the top it of therange is an open space or chamber k which extends the full length of therange and the end walls of which are formed by the inclined walls 6 andc, which form the tops of the chambers b and 0 and the back wall ofwhich is formed by the inclined wall d, which forms the top of the,

chamber (Z, and the chamber k communicates with the fire-box a and withthe chambers g and g and said chamber 7L2 also constitutes a part of theflue-space and is divided by a cliagonally-arranged wall z', whichextends from the back of the range at 2 as shown in Fig. 2, to about themiddle of that part of the chamber 7L over the oven, as shown at 2?,from which point it extends to the right and joins the partition-wall g,as shown at 2' and that part of the wall which extends from i to a" isprovided with an openingj, having a hinged damper or door i providedwith an operating-rod f which passes forwardly through the front wall ofthe range above theoven (1,

Extending backwardly and upwardly from the rear top portion of the ovena is the inclined top wall d of the air-chamber d, which separates theflue space or chamber if from the hot-air chamber (Z, and thevertically-arranged partition g divides the flue space or chamber g intotwo separate flue spaces or chambers f and f and also divides the fluespace or chamber 9 into two separate flue spaces or chambers f and f.

At the left-hand side of the fire-box a or between the fire-box and theleft-hand end of the range is placed a water-back 70, having asupply-pipe k and a discharge-pipe and the operation of which will besimilar to other apparatus of this class, and at the right-hand end ofthe range and communicating with the air-chamber c is a pipe m which maybe carried "to any apartment which is desired to be heated.

The front wall of the chamber 0, or the front wall of the range whichforms the front wall of said chamber, is provided with an air-register nof any desired form or construction, and the oven (5 is provided withthe usual front door 0.

Arranged centrally of the back of the range and at the back of the ovenis the usual discharge flue or pipe p, and the form of thepartition-wall a, over the oven (0 and back thereof, as shown at 2' inFig. 2, and the back wall of the range, at the top thereof, as shown atp in Fig. 2, is such as to form a chamber 19 which communicates with thevertically-arrangedflue space or chamber f, formed by dialso providedwith an opening 0 closed by I a removable plate 0, and this plate may beremoved for the purpose of cleaning the oven, if desired; but saidopening and plate form no part of this invention and may or may not beemployed.

The operation will be readily understood from the foregoing descriptionwhen taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and thefollowing statement thereof.- The articles to be cooked are placed inthe oven in the usual manner, and the hot gases of combustion from thefire-box a pass over the oven, through that part of the chamber orfluespace 7& in front of the partition-wall 2', and out through the partf 2 of the flue space or chamber g forwardly through the part f of theflue space or chamber g around the front end of the partition-plate g,back through the part f of the flue space or chamber 9 and up throughthe part f of the flue space or chamber g and rearwardly to the escapeflue or pipe 1). In this operation the oven, as will be understood, isquickly and thoroughly heated; but if it is desired to heat only the topportion of the oven or cook the contents thereof slowly the damper ordoor 7' is opened and the heated gases or products of combustion pass tothe right over the front portion of the oven and backwardly through thedoor to the escape flue or pipe 19. In any opera tion of the range inthe process of cooking or baking the air enters the chamber e throughthe register 6 or through the pipe connection 6 and passes upwardly intothe chamber Z5 and backwardly into the chamber d, from which it passesinto the chamber 0 at the right-hand end of the range, and the passageof air through the chambers Z), d, and 0 is retarded by thebaflle-plates 7) (Z and c and said air is thoroughly heated, and thisair may be discharged into the room in which the range is situatedthrough the register 71, or it may be carried to any other room throughthe pipe or conduit m, and in this way the room in which the range islocated or any other room may be supplied with hot air, and said air maybe obtained from the room itself or through a pipe connected with thebase of the range at e. The opening 6* at the right-hand end of thechamber e may be permanently closed if it is desired to attachanair-supply pipe thereto, and this form of construction is shown in Fig.5; but whenever it is desired to attach an airsupply pipe to saidopening 6* the same may be done by removing the cap 0 By means of myimprovement I provide a range or similar cooking apparatus which isperfectly adapted for all ordinary functions of such apparatus and whichmay also be made to serve not only for the ordinary purposes of cooking,but also for the purpose of heating various apartments in the buildingin which the range is located and for supplying pure hot air thereto.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is r 1. A range provided'with an oven, afire-box at one end thereof,-an ash-pit beneath the said fire-box,hot-air chambers at each end of the range and at the backthereof all ofwhich are in communication with one another and one of which is adjacentto and on the outer side of the fire-box, an air-register communicatingwith one of said chambers, flue-chambers inclosing the oven at the topand bottom and at the end opposite the fire-box, said fluechambers beingall in communication and the flue-chamber at the end opposite thefire-box being provided with a central vertical partition which extendstoward the fire-box partly through the flue-chamber at the bottom of theoven, the flue-chamber at the top of the oven being also provided with apartition which ranges from the back corner of the oven adjacent to thefire-box diagonally thereof to the middle portion of the top thereof andthen parallel with the front of the oven to the top of the partitionwhich divides the flue-chamber at the end of the oven opposite thefirebox, that part of the partition in the fluechamber at the top of theoven which is par- .allel with the front of the oven being provided withan opening closed by a damper havin an o eratin -rod which asses for-.

wardly through the front of the oven, said range being also provided inthe base thereof with an air-chamber which is in communication with theair-chamber in the fire-box end of the range, and means for'admittingair to said air-chamber in the base of the range, substantially as shownand described.

2. A range provided with an oven, a fire-box at one end thereof, anash-pit beneath the said fire-box, hot-air chambers at each end of therange and at the back thereof all of which are in communication with oneanother and one of which is adjacent to and on the outer side of thefire-box, an air-register communicating with one of said chambers,flue-chambers inclosing the oven at the top and bottom and at the endopposite the fire-box, said fluechambers being all in communication andthe flue-chamber at the end opposite the fire-box being provided with acentral vertical partition which extends toward the fire-box partlythrough the flue-cham ber at the bottom of the oven, the flue-chamber atthe top of the oven being also provided with a partition which rangesfrom the back corner of the oven adjacent to the fire-box diagonallythereof to the middle portion of the top thereof and then parallel withthe front of the oven to the top of the partition which divides theflue-chamber at the end of the oven opposite the firebox, that part ofthe partition in the fluechamber at the top ofthe oven which is parallelwith the front of the oven being pro vided with an opening closed byadamper having an operating-rod which passes forwardly through the frontof the oven, said range being also provided in the base thereof with anair-chamber which is in communication with the air-chamber in thefire-box end of the range, and means for admitting air to saidairchamber in the base of the range, the airchambers at the fire-box endof the range the back of the range and the end of the range opposite thefire-box being also provided with vertically-arranged bafiie-plates,substantially as shown and described.

3. A range provided with an oven, a fire-box at one end thereof, anash-pit beneath the said fire-box, hot-air chambers at each end of therange and at the back thereof all of which are incommunication with oneanotherand' one of which is adjacent to and on the outer side of thelire-box, an air-register communicating with one of said chambers,flue-chambers inclosing the oven at the top and bottom and at the endopposite the fire-box, said fluechambers being all in communication andthe flue-chamber at the end opposite the fire-box being provided with acentral vertical partition which extends toward the fire-box partlythrough the flue-chamber at the bottom of the oven, the flue-chamber atthe top of the oven being also provided with a partition which rangesfrom the back corner of the oven adjacent t0 the fire-box diagonallythereof to the middle portion of the top thereof and then parallel withthe front of the oven to the top of the partition which divides theflue-chamber at the end of the oven opposite the firebox, that part ofthe partition in the fluechamber at the top of the oven which isparallel with the front of the oven being provided with an openingclosed by a damper having an operating-rod which passes forwardlythrough the front of the oven, said range being also provided in thebase thereof with an air-chamber which is in communication with theair-chamber in the fire=box end of the range, and means for admittingair to said air-chamber in the base of the range, and said range beingalso provided with a waterback between the fire-box and the air-chamberadjacent thereto, substantially as shown and described.

In testimonythat I claim the foregoing as my invention 1 have signed myname, in pres ence of the subscribing witnesses, this 2d day of July,1904. V

SAMUEL TURANSKY. Witnesses:

G. J. KLEIN, E. A. STEWART.

